WESTERN Province’s woeful season continued as they slumped to a 10-wicket defeat against KwaZulu-Natal in the four-day SuperSport Series match at Newlands on Sunday. Having been dismissed an hour before tea for 260 in their second innings on the final day, the hosts had the impossible task of defending 31 runs. The visitors rattled off […]

ORLANDO Pirates ending Sundowns winning streak with a 1-0 win in the Rothmans Cup first leg semi-final at Minolta Loftus on Sunday. Sundowns game plan was undone by the late withdrawal of Bafana defender Themba Mnguni, who pulled a muscle minutes before the kick off. Pirates capitalised and despite being underdogs given Sundowns unbeaten league […]

TELFORD VICE, Bloemfontein | Sunday 7.00pm ZIMBABWE ended the third day of the first test against South Africa still 102 runs short of making the home side bat again with five wickets already down. The tourists reached 123-5 in their second innings at the close, needing 225 to avoid an innings defeat. Zimbabwe were dismissed […]

SHOCKING statistics show that only 4% of all births in the Northern Province are registered because of cultural taboos. The official provincial population of 4,6 million is vastly inaccurate, according to officials in the Population Unit in the Premier’s Office. They said the figure is much higher, and the lack of accurate data makes it […]

CAPTAIN Joost van der Westhuizen said he was “very, very disappointed” by the Springboks’ 27-21 defeat by Australia in a World Cup semifinal on Saturday. “But the guys showed lots of character and a lot of heart. There’s no one to blame. I never believed we were out of it, anything can happen. It’s typical […]

NIGERIA’S state-owned radio and television appears on Thursday to have launched a news blackout on the imposition of strict Islamic law in a northern state of the country more than 24 hours earlier. It remains unclear whether federal authorities ordered a blackout, but a worker on national television (NTA) in the capital Lagos said that […]

PETER KING, Cairo | Sunday 10.00pm. CAIRO airport echoed with the screams of hysteria and horror on Sunday as distraught relatives learned their loved ones were aboard EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off the US coast with all 214 aboard feared dead. Several people collapsed unconscious and many were given oxygen by doctors as airline […]

MOROCCO and China signed a series of economic cooperation agreements on Thursday following talks between visiting President Jiang Zemin and King Mohammed VI. The accords assert both countries’ desire to broaden relations, said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao. China will also provide a preferential loan to Rabat, Zhu added. Sources said the loan totalled […]

PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac discussed African trouble spots with his counterpart from Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, during a meeting that lasted more than an hour on Thursday. The leaders touched on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and regional conflicts in general, Mugabe said following the meeting. ”We discussed bilateral cooperation between our two […]

SOUTH African Airways announced on Friday it will provide 14 round-trip flights each week in line with the new SAA-Delta services between South Africa and the United States. The service will begin on February 1. Three flights will operate non-stop from Atlanta to Cape Town each week, returning direct from Cape Town to Atlanta with […]